Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As Central Iowa Water Works imposes a lawn-watering ban to help ensure member utilities have the capacity to treat high levels of ...

Water pumps through tanks in the nitrate removal facility at the Fleur Drive Treatment Plant in Des Moines. Operating the system at full capacity can cost upwards of $16,000 per day. The drinking ...

It’s been a wet spring across Iowa, but water utilities in the Des Moines area are asking people to save water because nitrate levels are high in the Des Moines and Raccoon rivers. The rivers are a ...

Rumors have been swirling online about whether the drinking water in the Des Moines metro area is safe after Central Iowa Water Works implemented a lawn watering ban in response to high nitrate levels ...

MADISON - When Wisconsinites think about unsafe drinking water, their first thought might be the "forever chemicals" known as PFAS. Or it might be the thousands of lead pipes that communities, ...

Lime and other particles settle to the bottom of one of the clarifiers as part of the water treatment process at the J Avenue NE Water Treatment Plant in northeast Cedar Rapids. Heavy rains after ...

EIGHT NEWS. IOWA’S NEWS LEADER. WELL, STAYING ON THE TOPIC OF WATER, THE NITRATE LEVELS IN THE DES MOINES AND RACCOON RIVERS ARE DROPPING. GREAT NEWS. YESTERDAY, THE LEVEL IN THE DES MOINES RIVER WAS ...

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources lifted its 'do not drink' order for the village of Williams Bay in Walworth County Sept. 5. Residents had been urged not to drink their tap water since ...